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"the Official, October 28th, 1991E.V. Pixilatin' Deadly Drolls": From Sunday, October 27 - Tuesday October 29, 1991E.V., I organized what's generally credited as the 1st multi-day PXL-2000 Festival. Drift Distribution probably organized a 1 day PXL fest prior to this & Gerry Fialka started the long-running PXL THIS festival more or less immediately after my multi-day one. I published a catalog for the festival which all attendees received & a VHS compilation of selected...
Topics: PXL-2000, Official, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Neil Feather, Nondo, Vibraphone
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Feb 17, 2021
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" The Official..TV Audience..Medium Band ": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Brad Hwang, Yvonne Harder, Florian...
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Jul 5, 2016
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“mm 66 presents: PIANO” “mm” = “m(usic(ian’s))m(eetings)” & is pronounced mmmmmmmmm . These meetings were started by myself, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, in the fall of 2011 to revive a neglected pleasure in my life, the pleasure of hanging out casually with friends & listening to & talking about & playing music. In 2013 a CD was released entitled “MM 26” to showcase (m)usic by some of the more regular attendees of the mms. 2 uncerts (uncertainty...
Topics: piano, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, mm, June 26 2016
"Artificial Unintelligence" Perhaps it started with Sargon of Akkad in 2300 BC. There have been so many conquerors. They all slaughtered in the interest of homogenizing humanity around their cultural dominance. By the 20th century, the mayhem approached the ability to anihhilate all humans & most other life. Perhaps tempered by this possibility, the imperialism moved into the cultural sphere more. Hollywood movies globally ruled the markets. Fast Food restaurants...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Carrion Elited, Dick Turner, Artificial Unintelligence, tOGGLE cASE,...
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Apr 20, 2019
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"HiTEC 009 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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Oct 26, 2017
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"Kate Kaos, April 9 & 10, 2000, May 14, 2000": From mid-March to mid-June, 2000, my partner etta cetera & I travelled in Malaysia (briefly) & Australia (for most of the time) where we were very busy & where we met a plethora of interesting folks. IN Melbourne, many of the people we met were introduced to us by Warren Burt. Kate Kaos was one of those & we were fortunate to be able to shoot footage of her dancing & kindly hosting a dinner party for us &...
Topics: Kate Kaos, dance, experimental music, Melbourne, 2000, Australia, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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Feb 15, 2021
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"Reading Gravity's Rainbow in Berlin": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a large...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Gravity's Rainbow, Akademie der...
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Feb 1, 2017
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"BIRD CALLS & SONGS (Endangered)": This is from the last of 15 INSTRUMENT SPECIFIC mms (m(usic(ian's))m(eetings)) that were organized to generate footage to then be culled from as part of my in-progress 'opera' Score Movie entitled "Endangered Languages, Endangered Cultures, Endangered Ideas" &, as such, the last of the (Endangered) movies. The theme really extends to all-things-BIRD rather than just BIRD CALLS & SONGS since it includes things like movies that...
Topics: birds, bird calls, bird songs, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, mm, Ben Opie, Michael Pestel, David...
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Feb 6, 2021
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"TV Hospital: Talkathon Introduction - March 25, 1994E.V.": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrolle (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Axel Jagemann, Kirstin, Richard...
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Feb 17, 2021
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"Table 2 Antics": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a large exhibit called...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, Kaffee Sendeschluß, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, potato salad,...
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May 15, 2021
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"Light Show (of Sorts) 2" - Intermittently from Friday, August 25, 2000 through 'til July 4, 2003, I projected a total of 10 multiple-projector light shows from the projection booth in the theater of the Andy Warhol Museum. Sometimes the performers requested specific films from the Warhol ouevre, usually I projected my own work in addition to whatever was requested. In those years I biked the 3.5 miles to work over hilly terrain with as much as 25 pounds of gear & movies on my...
Topics: light shows, multiple projections, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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Aug 13, 2019
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"P@rty Prop@g@nd@": There are political parties, which I don't endorse, & parties for fun, which I do endorse. For this movie I took 3 prominent 20th century propaganda movies: the execrable racist/capitalist "Birth of a Nation" by D.W.Griifth, the nauseating nazi/racist "Triumph of the Will" by Leni Reifenstahl, & Sergei Eisenstein's "October". These were all originally high-resolution & black & white. I then intercut these under...
Topics: propaganda, parties, anarchy, neoism, nazism, capitalism, racism, communism
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Nov 11, 2018
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"6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour": For 8 months prior to April, 1986, I laboriously planned a tour by writing to people & asking if they'd be interested in setting up a show for me. At least one person told me something to the effect that he only wanted to do that for 'important people'. The San Francisco Cinematheque folks had to be convinced that I wasn't fictitious. Finally, I had 9 gigs lined up: April 17, 1986: Tufts University in Massachusetts (thanks to Owen...
Topics: 6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, booed usic, experimental...
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Jan 3, 2017
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“NONDO +”: Neil Feather invented the instrument the NONDO around 1979 or earlier. It consists of a sheet of iron bent by the tension of piano wire running across its concave surface in 2 parallel lines. One way of playing it is to roll a piece of cylindrical metal along the strings & to strike this cylinder & the strings themselves. m(usic(ian’s))m(eeting) 74, December 25, 2016, focused on a history of the NONDO stretching from 1979 to 2016 with an emphasis on recordings of...
Topics: Nondo, Neil Feather, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, John Berndt, Big If, Something that Dissolves the...
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Feb 17, 2021
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"Fake Murder @ Table 2": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a large exhibit called...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, Kaffee Sendeschluß, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Birgit Krah,...
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Feb 16, 2021
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"Frank Monster": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a large exhibit called...
Topics: TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Andrew Stulle, Gordon Monahan, Laura...
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Nov 14, 2016
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“METRONOME (Endangered)”: This is the 10th molecule of the projected 15 of the Endangered Grid. The "Endangered Grid" is part of the Score Movie for my projected in-progress 'opera' called "Endangered Languages, Endangered Culture, Endangered Ideas". 2 of the molecules are on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel. The other 7 are on Vimeo. - November 13, 2016 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, metronome, endangered languages endangered cultures endangered ideas
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Nov 18, 2016
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“Hindsight (installation version)”: “Hindsight” is the name given to a series of 3 movies that I made to quasi-document my walks in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh. I love the park & am very grateful to have such a place in which to enjoy nature. The longest of the 3 movies, all made from the same material but edited in different ways, is on my “onesownthoughts” YouTube channel. This “installation version” is meant to be projected covering an entire white wall in a dark...
Topics: Hindsight, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, nature, parks, walking, keying, green suits, neoism
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Aug 16, 2019
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"Where We're" is probably one of the strangest movies ever made. Even beginning to explain & describe it is problematic for me. I strung together found filmstrips, found 35mm film, & my own filmstrips into one long filmstrip that's over 2 hours when projected just as that. It seems likely to me that it's the only feature-length experimental filmstrip — or that it, at least, was so at the time I made it from October, 1998, to December, 1999. At 1st, it was just the...
Topics: Where We're, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Generic Tours, Burning Man, etta cetera, electronic music,...
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Nov 22, 2017
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"IMP ACTIVISM #2": In 1999, in Pittsburgh, 3 anarchist friends banded together to publish a printed matter 'zine called "The Street Rat". Around the same time, these friends also started a video 'zine called "IMP ACTIVISM". This was an attempt to document political activism with an IMPish sense of humor that might have some IMPACT. Resistance is fertile. Both publications lasted about 7 issues over the next 6 years. IMP ACTIVISM #2 was made between 1999...
Topics: political activism, IMP ACTIVISM, anarchy, anarchism, Street Rat, Street RatBag, ratbags,...
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Jan 28, 2018
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"Filmstrips": On January 10, 1996, I moved to Pittsburgh. One of the more interesting shows I participated in that year was an Orgone Cinema presentation of filmstrips on July 26, 1996 at the Silver Eye Gallery. The Orgone folks gave me a filmstrip that they didn't have the soundtrack for & asked me to make a new one. The usual crew of creative weirdos were the participants: Edgar Um Bucholtz, myself (as Anonymous), Fraile Johnsen (Michael Johnsen), Greg Pierce, & Todd...
Topics: filmstrips, Orgone Cinema, Edgar Um Bucholtz, Anonymous, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Fraile Johnsen,...
Other Minds Music Reference Library
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Feb 26, 2020
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Various Artists; Jerry Hunt; Nobuo Kubota; Rick Sacks; Tentatively, A Convenience; The Glass Orchestra
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Tracklist: 1. Song Drape 2 - Jerry Hunt 2. Song Drape 1 - Jerry Hunt 3. Song Drape 11 - Jerry Hunt 4. Bathysphere - Rick Sacks 5. MultiPing - The Glass Orchestra 6. Melody #5 (For Musicworks)(Revised) - Note #3 - Tentatively, A Convenience 7. Synthetically Yours - Nobuo Kubota 8. Voice Improv 96m2 - Nobuo Kubota 9. Synthetically Japanese - Nobuo Kubota 10. Nobby-One-Note - Nobuo Kubota 11. Floo-Wack - Nobuo Kubota 12. Dudacka Polka 13. Cehnicka Polka 14. Quem A Omagen Da Virgen 15. Dudacka...
Topic: Other Classical
Source: CD
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Dec 5, 2012
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Radio 1979: This series of recordings that're labeled: "Radio (+ a year)" is the most complete selection of my (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE"s) endeavors in radio. It begins in 1979 not because I was working with radio, per se, but because I was working with an audio interactive medium akin to radio but more accessible for uncensored participation to the general public. From the very beginning my interest was in free speech, music that doesn't get enough airplay, & more...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY-a-cONVENIENCE, telephones, B.U.T.N., TESTES-3, VD-RADIO, experimental music
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Aug 11, 2018
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" 2018.06.29 duet with Stephen Bradley - Baltimore, MD - via FaceTime ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Stephen Bradley,...
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Jul 30, 2019
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Various Artists; Angel Sampedro Del Rio & Alberto Magnin; Colin Offord; Grant Strombeck; Jacob Duringer; Jan Jarvlepp (Ottowa Symphony Orchestra, David Crane Conducting); John Gzowski; Keith Spears; Mitchell Clark; Nelly Van Ree Bernard; Q.R.Ghazala; Ranier Linz; Tentatively, A Convenience
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Source material did not include any artwork. Tracklist: 1. Heavenly Flower - Colin Offord 2. Asp 3 - Ranier Linz 3. Third Shift Rituals - Keith Spears 4. Answering Machines Of The Divinity - Keith Spears 5. Takuar - Angel Sampedro Del Rio & Alberto Magnin 6. Excerpt From "The Official, November 2nd, 1992e.V., Last Man On Earth" Session - Tentatively, A Convenience 7. Clock Chimes Plus - Grant Strombeck 8. Excerpt From Transformations - Jan Jarvlepp (Ottowa Symphony Orchestra,...
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Nov 3, 2017
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Bat Lenny; Collapse/Relapse; Daniel Johnston; Fredrick Lonberg-Holm; Gregory Whitehead; Heather Perkins; Hope Organ; John Wiggins; Kitchen Table Ensemble; La Coste; Minóy; Mystery Laboratory; Philip Perkins; Qubias Ghazala; Ric E. Braden; Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl; Steele, Jim; Tentatively, A Convenience; Triptic of a Pastel Fern; Vosch; Yximalloo
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Tracklist: 1. What You Think Will Happen, Will - Heather Perkins 2. Columbus Ave. 10PM - Ric E. Braden 3. Splatter Experience Of The Green Gods - Steele, Jim 4. Grievances [alt. take] - Daniel Johnston 5. Timbre=Melody - John Wiggins 6. China-Pong - Yximalloo 7. The Delphian Oracle - Qubias Ghazala 8. The Second Minuet - Fredrick Lonberg-Holm 9. Oh Fortuna - La Coste 10. Exploded Views - Kitchen Table Ensemble 11. Bonzai Noir - Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl 12. Tunnel At Dawn - Vosch 13....
Topic: Compilation
Source: CD
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Sep 8, 2017
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Bat Lenny; Collapse/Relapse; Daniel Johnston; Fredrick Lonberg-Holm; Gregory Whitehead; Heather Perkins; Hope Organ; John Wiggins; Kitchen Table Ensemble; La Coste; Minóy; Mystery Laboratory; Philip Perkins; Qubias Ghazala; Ric E. Braden; Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl; Steele, Jim; Tentatively, A Convenience; Triptic of a Pastel Fern; Vosch; Yximalloo
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Tracklist: 1. What You Think Will Happen, Will - Heather Perkins 2. Columbus Ave. 10PM - Ric E. Braden 3. Splatter Experience Of The Green Gods - Steele, Jim 4. Grievances [alt. take] - Daniel Johnston 5. Timbre=Melody - John Wiggins 6. China-Pong - Yximalloo 7. The Delphian Oracle - Qubias Ghazala 8. The Second Minuet - Fredrick Lonberg-Holm 9. Oh Fortuna - La Coste 10. Exploded Views - Kitchen Table Ensemble 11. Bonzai Noir - Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl 12. Tunnel At Dawn - Vosch 13....
Topic: Compilation
Source: CD
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Jan 2, 2018
01/18
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/Dev/Null; 8Cylinder; Automatic Matty P; Climax Street; Clockworm; Colongib; Geobot; Girl Talk; Grand Buffet; Holocaust; Impercept; Jason Moyer; Jeremy Boyle; Luxe Robotica; Manherringbone; Michael Johnsen; My Boyfriend the Pilot; Operation Re-Information; Pixelstalin; Powder French; Requiem; Shawu Computronix; Stoic Sex Pro; Syne Lapse Variate; Telesys; Tentatively, a Convenience; Torus; Vampire Nation; Xanopticon; Zombi
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No Records Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. Today - Automatic Matty P 2. In Less - Jeremy Boyle 3. Sine - Climax Street 4. Randa-Lyn and Cherry-Pie - Clockworm 5. Flat Roch - Colongib 6. Contra 4 - /Dev/Null 7. Hot Summer Nights - 8Cylinder 8. SETI - Geobot 9. On Nesbit - Girl Talk 10. Murphy - Grand Buffet 11. Educ8ted Jew - Holocaust 12. Long Journey for Such a Small Creature - Impercept 13. [untitled] - Michael Johnsen 14. The Balls of Enid Foster - Luxe Robotica 15. Magnetic Parasite - Manherringbone...
Topic: Compilation
Source: CD
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Jul 10, 2018
07/18
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" 2018.06.13 duet with Hyla Willis — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Hyla Willis, erhu,...
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Jul 30, 2018
07/18
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" 2018.06.23 duet with Neely Bruce — Middletown, CT — via Skype ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Neely Bruce, piano, sampler,...
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Nov 2, 2019
11/19
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"Robopaths": A robopath is a person who doesn't think for themselves, who acts in accordance with provided programs &, as such, is dangerous & pernicious because they don't personally assume responsibility. I think that most people are robopaths & that they're the enablers of the malignant megalomania of the people who manipulate them. This movie is a pastiche supporting this opinion, largely centered on an exemplary robopath: Adolph Eichmann. It's one of the most...
Topics: robopaths, untertan, Adolph Eichmann, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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Aug 31, 2017
08/17
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"Spectral Evidence": This was shot from September 12-21, 2011 in Cape Cod, Salem, & Cape Ann, Massachussetts. I learned about the idea of "spectral evidence" in Salem where dream 'evidence' was enough to convict people during the Witch Trials. Sociopathic young women could claim that they saw a person they knew with a cat in their dream - thusly 'proving' that the accused had a 'familiar', an animal that assisted with their witchcraft. I applied the term as a title...
Topics: Massachussetts, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Salem, spectral evidence, Vermin Supreme, tENTATIVELY a...
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Jul 24, 2011
07/11
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 4: 2008.12.21 Systems Management (middle) - 23:03 - HiTEC 048 HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, was an orchestra founded by myself (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE) in July of 2008 that played 72 times before its demise in March of 2010. 60 of these times were rehearsals, 5 were classroom situations at the Mattress Factory & CMU, 1 was a special-focus recording session, & 6 were the main performances. This 48th session was a 'Full Group' one in...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, piano, Low Classical Usic
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Dec 5, 2012
12/12
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Radio 1986: In the spring of 1986, I embarked on my "6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour" - initially with my girlfriend of the time & violinist/lyreist Norman Yeh. We were joined for one show in Montréal by John Berndt. This was John's 1st improvising show. The tour was under the name of "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & t he booed usicians". At each gig, locals played as part of the program while I presented films & videos of mine & danced with no pants on,...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour, WMFO, KGNU, Little Fyodor,...
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Mar 15, 2014
03/14
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 6: 01 Called - 3:03 - composed 2008, this recording March 12, 2013 - composed & performed by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE In 2007 or thereabouts I inherited the ±50 yr old Wurlitzer upright piano that I'd grown up w/. Having played piano off & on (mostly off) for the preceding 47 yrs I was delighted to actually have access to one at home as an adult to play & experiment w/. One of the most conventional things I did w/ it was try to develop my technique....
Topics: piano, experimental music, pi, e, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Titin, Michael Pestel, J Tracy...
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May 4, 2019
05/19
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"HiTEC 061-063 — Visionary Arts Festival": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, Visionary Arts Festival, Johan Nystrom, Mike...
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Sep 4, 2018
09/18
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"UNDERAPPRECIATED Day 1": In January, 2018, I conceived of an UNDERAPPRECIATED MOVIEMAKERS FESTIVAL. This idea appealed to me immensely partially because I thought it was an interesting curatorial spin to choose work not on the basis of what type of movie it was (say: experimental, documentary, trash, horror, Asian, Queer, etc) but on whether the moviemakers themselves considered themselves & their work to be UNDERAPPRECIATED. As the criteria that I would judge the entries by...
Topics: UNDERAPPRECIATED MOVIEMAKERS FESTIVAL, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Dick Turner, Florian Cramer,...
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May 5, 2019
05/19
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I've been uploading, in chronological order, all movie documents relevant to my small orchestra, HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative). So far, that's been 67 movies if I include both the long & the short versions of some things. HiTEC's 1st big public performance was at the New Hazlett Theater on January 9, 2009. That presentation was well-received by a reasonably large audience. As such, I was asked by the director of the theater, Sara Radelet, if I'd like to curate a...
Topics: HiTE Club, HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Capgun...
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May 2, 2019
05/19
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"HiTEC 047 A": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. This...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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Apr 26, 2019
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"HiTEC 039 full group": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. ...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Johan Nystrom, Hyla...
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May 1, 2019
05/19
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"HiTEC 045 'Full' Group": HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) was originally proposed as "Sonic Aughts Union" by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE after a May 2008 gig in the Carnegie Public Library Oakland branch with separate sets by t,ac; Margaret Cox; Rick Gribenas; & Steve Boyle. The name was a take-off on the Sonic Arts Union, a group that t,ac admired. The original SAU had 4 main members who only did solo pieces & never collaborated with each other. ...
Topics: HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Joy Toujours,...
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Aug 4, 2016
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“HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS” is the middle movie of a series of 3 movies that get progressively shorter. The 1st one, which is on YouTube, is called “mm 67 presents: HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS”. That one presents a feature-length version of a m(usic(ian’s))m(eeting) at which 3 friends listen to works that use HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS as (m)usical instruments, watch movies on YouTube that do the same, & play objects in the room in which this is taking place as (m)usical instruments. This shorter...
Topics: household objects, experimental music, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, Hyla Willis
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May 9, 2019
05/19
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"Infinite Monkey Theorem" is System 31 in HiTEC's "Systems Management". HiTEC is an acronym for "Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative" which I (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE) founded in July, 2008, & which ended in March, 2010. The purpose of HiTEC was to try to get a sizeable group of people to simultaneously conduct thought experiments & to produce a collective sound/action as a result. This movie is made from HiTEC realizations of "Infinite...
Topics: Infinite Monkey Theorem, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, HiTEC, experimental music, Low Classical Usic,...
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Feb 11, 2020
02/20
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"The Ticket that Exploded @ the library": When I was 15, probably in the summer of 1969, I heard the band Soft Machine's song "Hope for Happiness" on Baltimore rock radio & loved it. As I recall, most Baltimore radio was abysmal so I found Soft Machine to be of exceptional quality. It wasn't until perhaps 5 years later that I realized that the band had gotten their name from a William S. Burroughs novel. I read the book & was astounded. It was shocking.....
Topics: The Ticket that Exploded, The Ticket, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, Roger Dannenberg, Jeff...
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Sep 15, 2017
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"booed usic @ t he Telectropheremoanin'quinquennial": The Telectropheremoanin'quinquennial was a celebration of the 5th anniversary of B.U.T.N. (BalTimOre Underground Telephone (or Telectropheremone (or Telectropheremoanin')) Network) held at the Galaxy Ballroom in the Congress Hotel in BalTimOre, MD, us@, on January 24th, 1984. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE showed movies, including one about the 1st of the B.U.T.N. phone stations, TESTES-3, & performed "booed usic" in...
Topics: telectropheremoanin'quinquennial, BUTN, phone sex, booed usic, Mark Harp, Leroy Keltner, Craig...
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Dec 6, 2012
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Radio 2000: 2000 was a fantastic year for me because my collaborator etta cetera & I got to go to Malaysia & Australia & were very, very busy there for 3 months. Our initial motive for going there was to participate in, & basically CREATE, what became (un)known as the "1st Non-Existent International Neoist Apartment Festival in the Year 000". The 1st radio presentation was in Adelaide, where the festival was(n't) happening. Through our host, Karen Eliot, we were...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 3D, 3RRR, 3CR, etta cetera, neoism, Money Against Capitalism,...
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Apr 8, 2020
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"Driving Long Distance with MM 26": In 2011, I started a series of (m)usician's meetings at my house & elsewhere to discuss, listen to, & play (m)usic. Ahh.. the simple pleasures of life. In 2013, a group of the regular attendees released a CD of samples of our work. I think the CD is excellent. On March 28, 2020 Vision, I had to drive long distance to the burial of the ashes of a relative. They didn't die from COVID-19. Because of the PANDEMIC PANIC & the...
Topics: MM 26, music, experimental music, experimental usic, Low Classical Usic, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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May 12, 2022
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"made 4 tv version of Attempt 2 Score Sum Action 4 Daily Living": In the beginning of 1978 I proposed to a group of 7 friends that each of them propose an action for us both to perform simultaneously at a set time of the day but in different locations. This was my "Attempt 2 Score Sum Action 4 Daily Living". The 7 friends were: Sumu Pretzler (Doug Retzler), Polio Vasslene (Paula Gillen), Lily Pad (Beth Downey), Chas (Charlie Brohawn), Laurie Stepp, Adolpho at Fuji (Alfred...
Topics: multi-monitor video work, life experimentation, Dave Bowman, Laure Drogoul, Nancy Andrews, Lee...
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Jul 31, 2020
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"School of Negativity": I was getting some supplies from a store when I noticed that they had black canvases for sale. This inspired me to imagine painting in negative. I've generally found the QUARANTYRANNY oppressive & the emphasis on masks suffocating so it occurred to me that this might be a good time to create a "School of Negativity". Always trying to think of new activities to keep my friend Breen & I entertained & sane during these times I further...
Topics: School of Negativity, painting, Lake Erie, July 2020, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Breen Casey
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"Baby Bunny" - Let's face it, a tiny baby rabbit is about as cute as it gets.. but humans can be pretty endearing too, especially when they're just out on the rivers having some friendly conversation & doing a little river clean-up errand, so I might as well throw them in the mix too. Not, admittedly, one of my more intellectually challenging movies but, HEY!, I can enjoy relaxing every once in a while too - as long as I don't make a habit of it. - August 8, 2022 notes from...
Topics: Allegheny River, Monongahela River, boating, river clean-up, Evan, Maddy, tENT
